Making Stuff

Last year, as I was putting together a few last-minute things for the holidays, these happened:

Yes, I jumped aboard the Mason jar gift trend train, whipped up a batch of just-add-water microwave mug cake mix, added some festive fabric and ribbon and a cute little instruction card, and just like that, three gifts done. For women.

And that’s where I paused. For women. It is so easy to do this sort of thing for women. We love cake that happens in 40 seconds. We love cute. We love the little glass Universe of infinite possibility that is the Mason jar gift.

So I said to my best friend, who happened to be nearby and happens to be a guy, “We should do stuff like this for guys. Guys like stuff in containers, right? We should do Mason jar gifts for them.” read more